Big Thief have shared a remastered reissue of their 2016 debut album Masterpiece, out now via 4Ad.
When Big Thief released Masterpiece in 2016, they seemingly became indie rock royalty overnight. The Brooklyn-based band recorded the album in July 2015 at a makeshift studio in an old lakehouse with producer Andrew Sarlo and engineer James Krivchenia, the latter of whom would go on to become Big Thief’s full-time drummer.
Though its title could be used to describe the quality of the record itself, vocalist Adrianne Lenker says Masterpiece refers to “the masterpiece of existence, which is always folding into itself, people attempting to connect, to both shake themselves awake and to shake off the numbness of certain points in their life. The interpretations might be impressionistic or surrealistic, but they’re grounded in simple things.”
In additional Big Thief news, the band has also unveiled an official karaoke YouTube channel so that...
When Big Thief released Masterpiece in 2016, they seemingly became indie rock royalty overnight. The Brooklyn-based band recorded the album in July 2015 at a makeshift studio in an old lakehouse with producer Andrew Sarlo and engineer James Krivchenia, the latter of whom would go on to become Big Thief’s full-time drummer.
Though its title could be used to describe the quality of the record itself, vocalist Adrianne Lenker says Masterpiece refers to “the masterpiece of existence, which is always folding into itself, people attempting to connect, to both shake themselves awake and to shake off the numbness of certain points in their life. The interpretations might be impressionistic or surrealistic, but they’re grounded in simple things.”
In additional Big Thief news, the band has also unveiled an official karaoke YouTube channel so that...
- 12/8/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Anjimile has dropped a scathing new protest song, “Animal,” from his upcoming album, The King, out Sept. 8 via 4Ad.
Written in summer 2020, “Animal” seethes with the anger, despair, and grief that fueled the mass protests against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd. Over the booming, unnerving strum of a blown-out acoustic guitar, Anjimile holds nothing back as the song builds to a devastating final verse: “And I heard blue lives matter/from a white liberal/Piece of shit I couldn’t stand at all/If you treat me...
Written in summer 2020, “Animal” seethes with the anger, despair, and grief that fueled the mass protests against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd. Over the booming, unnerving strum of a blown-out acoustic guitar, Anjimile holds nothing back as the song builds to a devastating final verse: “And I heard blue lives matter/from a white liberal/Piece of shit I couldn’t stand at all/If you treat me...
- 8/23/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Anjimile — the singer-songwriter who broke through in 2020 with his debut, Giver Taker — is back with a new song, “The King.” The single is from his upcoming album of the same name, out Sept. 8 via his new label 4Ad.
“The King” is a dramatic, unsettling, yet grand track based around meticulously crafted choral arrangements, thumping percussion, and a striking riff that sounds like an uncanny harpsichord. With references to the biblical story of Belshazzar’s feast and the “writing on the wall,” Anjimile grapples with the grief and fury of being Black in America,...
“The King” is a dramatic, unsettling, yet grand track based around meticulously crafted choral arrangements, thumping percussion, and a striking riff that sounds like an uncanny harpsichord. With references to the biblical story of Belshazzar’s feast and the “writing on the wall,” Anjimile grapples with the grief and fury of being Black in America,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
British-born, Athens-based art rocker Westerman will return this May with his much-anticipated sophomore LP, An Inbuilt Fault, the follow-up to his 2020 debut Your Hero Is Not Dead.
After previewing his upcoming album this fall with “Idol; Re-Run,” the artist, born Will Westerman, has shared the second single, “CSI: Petralona” from the LP, due out May 5 via Partisan Records.
“I had the riff for the song and left it lying around with a bunch of other bits and pieces,” Westerman said of the track in a statement.
“A friend told me...
After previewing his upcoming album this fall with “Idol; Re-Run,” the artist, born Will Westerman, has shared the second single, “CSI: Petralona” from the LP, due out May 5 via Partisan Records.
“I had the riff for the song and left it lying around with a bunch of other bits and pieces,” Westerman said of the track in a statement.
“A friend told me...
- 2/1/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Big Thief appeared (virtually) on The Late Late Show to showcase their song, “Certainty.” Performing from an intimate living room setting, the indie-folk group offered a similar visual experience to their recent appearance on The Tonight Show.
“Certainty” comes off the group’s expansive double album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, out now. The songs were recorded over five months in locations that ranged across the continental U.S., from the Arizona desert and the Colorado mountains to upstate New York and Los Angeles.
Drummer James Krivchenia,...
“Certainty” comes off the group’s expansive double album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, out now. The songs were recorded over five months in locations that ranged across the continental U.S., from the Arizona desert and the Colorado mountains to upstate New York and Los Angeles.
Drummer James Krivchenia,...
- 4/29/2022
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Big Thief brought their unique brand of indie-folk to The Tonight Show Thursday with a performance of the song “Spud Infinity” off the group’s expansive double album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You.
The pre-recorded segment was filmed inside a living room, the cozy setting serving as the perfect venue for the Brooklyn-based group to showcase the quirky-yet-sentimental track. Filled with references to everyday objects and playful rhymes, the song is an earnest meditation on mortality and the many mysteries of the universe. “When I say celestial...
The pre-recorded segment was filmed inside a living room, the cozy setting serving as the perfect venue for the Brooklyn-based group to showcase the quirky-yet-sentimental track. Filled with references to everyday objects and playful rhymes, the song is an earnest meditation on mortality and the many mysteries of the universe. “When I say celestial...
- 4/1/2022
- by Kat Bouza
- Rollingstone.com
Big Thief have premiered two new songs, “Little Things” and “Sparrow.” The tracks mark the band’s first new material since 2019’s Two Hands.
“Little Things” was recorded with Shawn Everrett at Five Star Studios in Topanga, California, last October, while “Sparrow” was recorded with Sam Evianat Flying Cloud Recordings in the Catskills in the summer of 2020. Both songs were produced by Big Thief’s drummer James Krivchenia.
“It’s in this sort of evolving free time signature where the beat is always changing, so Max [Oleartchik] and I were just...
“Little Things” was recorded with Shawn Everrett at Five Star Studios in Topanga, California, last October, while “Sparrow” was recorded with Sam Evianat Flying Cloud Recordings in the Catskills in the summer of 2020. Both songs were produced by Big Thief’s drummer James Krivchenia.
“It’s in this sort of evolving free time signature where the beat is always changing, so Max [Oleartchik] and I were just...
- 8/10/2021
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Bachelor, the new project from indie favorites Jay Som (Melina Duterte) and Palehound (Ellen Kempner), have released a new song, “Sick of Spiraling,” from their upcoming debut album Doomin’ Sun, out May 28th via Polyvinyl.
“Sick of Spiraling” finds Bachelor embracing a bit of a country twang while Big Thief drummer James Krivchenia anchors the track with a dusty shuffle. In between twisting guitar lines that drift seamlessly between high-and-lonesome and blown-out-basement-show, Kempner spins a clever but poignant yarn about longing and life on the road: “Walking alone at night,...
“Sick of Spiraling” finds Bachelor embracing a bit of a country twang while Big Thief drummer James Krivchenia anchors the track with a dusty shuffle. In between twisting guitar lines that drift seamlessly between high-and-lonesome and blown-out-basement-show, Kempner spins a clever but poignant yarn about longing and life on the road: “Walking alone at night,...
- 4/22/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews will release her new album Old Flowers on June 5th via Fat Possum Records. In advance of the LP, the Phoenix native premiered the brooding track “If I Told,” a vulnerable five-minute ballad that recalls a pivotal night on Venice Beach in Los Angeles.
“Tell me your dreams and I’ll tell you mine/what would you say, if I told you/you’re my last thought at the end of each night?” Andrews sings, her voice sounding like a distant transmission from across the ocean.
“Tell me your dreams and I’ll tell you mine/what would you say, if I told you/you’re my last thought at the end of each night?” Andrews sings, her voice sounding like a distant transmission from across the ocean.
- 3/5/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
“I love performing,” Adrianne Lenker says, “but unfortunately, the bigger you get, the more mitote.”
Mitote (pronounced “mih-toe-tay”) is a word that Lenker and her bandmates in Big Thief have been using a lot lately. They found it in a 1997 book of spiritual philosophy called The Four Agreements, by Mexican author Don Miguel Ruiz, where it represents “the stuff that surrounds our human experience,” Lenker explains. “Everything that has to do with projection or constructs or ideas or concepts about the other.”
“A lot of the time,” drummer James Krivchenia adds,...
Mitote (pronounced “mih-toe-tay”) is a word that Lenker and her bandmates in Big Thief have been using a lot lately. They found it in a 1997 book of spiritual philosophy called The Four Agreements, by Mexican author Don Miguel Ruiz, where it represents “the stuff that surrounds our human experience,” Lenker explains. “Everything that has to do with projection or constructs or ideas or concepts about the other.”
“A lot of the time,” drummer James Krivchenia adds,...
- 5/2/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
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